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Hold on to Your Hardware: BadRAM (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
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In this follow up post on the original Hold on to Your Hardware write-up we’re going to have a look at how to deal with faulty RAM on Linux, which is one of the major causes for system instability, crashes and data corruption on consumer hardware.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Disclaimer: This is supposed to act as a temporary measure and not a long-term solution. Faulty RAM will cause headaches down the road and can lead to irreparable data corruption.

Important disclaimer at the end that I felt was worth repeating